EDGEBIC Actual Live Monitoring Explained: Progress on the Routing

EDGEBIC by User Solutions offers a read-only live view that overlays a job's logged progress onto its routing diagram, showing an actual-versus-planned comparison on each operation, so you watch a job in flight on the same shape you used to author its process, and nothing you do on the board changes the schedule. Monitoring a job and editing a job are different acts that deserve different surfaces. The live actual view is the monitoring one: a safe window you can open any time to see where a job really is, in the context of its whole flow.

This reads the same actuals the kiosk logs and draws them against the plan. Where the reports give you those numbers in tables, this gives you them in the shape of the process.

Progress on the Shape of the Process

The defining idea is that progress lives on the routing diagram, not in a grid. A job's routing is a flow of connected operations, and the live view puts a card on each operation comparing what was planned against what has actually been logged. You read the job the way it is actually built: step by step along the process, seeing which operations are ahead, on track, or behind.

That spatial framing is more useful than it first sounds, because it answers the question a supervisor actually has. A table can tell you step twenty is behind; the diagram tells you what step twenty being behind means for the finish, because you can see the steps that follow it. A delay with slack downstream may cost nothing; a delay on the path that decides the finish date is the one to worry about. Seeing the comparison on the real shape lets you judge the consequence, not just the fact. For how EDGEBIC identifies that decisive path, see how EDGEBIC orders operations.

Read-Only by Design

The live actual view deliberately changes nothing. It reads the plan and the logged actuals, draws the comparison, and stops there. There is no save button that commits a schedule change, because monitoring should never carry the risk of accidentally editing the thing you are watching.

That constraint is what makes the board safe to open constantly. A planner can eyeball a handful of important jobs without the fear of dragging something loose. A supervisor can check a long job midway through a shift without touching the plan. When the board reveals that something needs to move, you switch to the tools built for that, the Gantt drag or the reschedule path, and make the change there. The live view is the window; the schedule tools are the controls.

Watching Versus Editing

It is worth naming the separation explicitly, because it is a design principle that runs through the product. Some surfaces exist to change the schedule and carry the guardrails that changing demands: staged drags, confirmation, change logging. Other surfaces exist to understand the schedule and are kept read-only so they can be used freely. The live actual view is firmly in the second camp.

Keeping the two apart means you never have to weigh a look against a risk. You can monitor as often as you like, and the only way to change anything is to deliberately move to a surface whose job is change. That clarity is worth more than the convenience of an all-in-one screen that lets a monitoring glance turn into an accidental edit.

When to Open It

Three moments make the live view the right screen. A customer question, where you want to see where an order truly stands before you answer, in a form that shows the whole job at once. A mid-shift check, where a supervisor confirms a long job is tracking rather than quietly slipping. And a planner's scan of important jobs, where you want the shape of a few orders without opening the full schedule.

In each case the value is the same: a fast, honest, risk-free read on a job in progress. For the numeric drill-down behind any concern the board raises, the work center progress report gives step-level hours, and how to log actual hours and pieces explains where the progress data comes from.

Where It Fits

The live actual view sits at the observation end of the actuals loop. Operators log at the kiosk, the schedule absorbs the actuals, and this board reflects them onto the routing so a human can watch. It complements the dashboard, which gives the plant-wide health read, by zooming into one job's flow. For the whole system it observes, the complete EDGEBIC guide is the map.

The Point of a Monitoring Window

You should be able to watch a job without the risk of changing it, and you should be able to see progress in the shape of the process rather than as a disembodied number. A read-only board that draws actual against planned on the routing diagram gives you both: safe to open any time, and framed so you can judge whether a delay actually matters. It is the difference between knowing a step is late and knowing whether the job is going to be okay.

Want to watch one of your jobs progress on its own routing? Bring an export to a demo and we will put it on the board.